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MLB 2K11 is ready to flash some serious leather. The baseball franchise spent the off-season refining its defensive game, adding a revamped fielding system to an already impressive roster of features. Play Gold Glove caliber defense with throwing meters that help you uncork the perfect throw and landing indicators that let you chase down that fly ball. Newly rebuilt player models look sharper than ever, and they perform just like their real-life counterparts with Dynamic Player Rankings that update daily. The battle between pitcher and hitter remains intense with the return of Total Control Pitching and Hitting, while the presentation stays fresh with details pulled from real Major League happenings.
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MLB 2k11 is a blast. This, I will not argue. Alas, it is still plagued by the lazy mistakes that have been detrimental to the success of every MLB 2K game. --The Graphics-- The player models are really hit or miss. Guys like Hideki Matsui look insanely accurate, while guys like Chris Carter are a...more
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Online Features Online League, Xbox LIVE Family Settings, Achievements, Voice, Online Multiplayer, Friends, Content Download, Leaderboards
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Is Al-Rasheed one of the Names of Allaah?
I have come across information conncerning the authenticity of Ar-Rasheed as one of the names of Allaah. However, I am unsure if this is more correct than information I have been given from Ash-Shawkaani's book "tuhfatu-dh dhaakireen". Could you please clarify this for me.
Praise be to Allaah.
Al-Rasheed is not one of the Names of Allaah, because it was not narrated either in the Qur'aan or in the Saheeh Sunnah. The Names of Allaah are as they were narrated (with no room for ijtihaad). It is not permissible to call Allaah by any names other than those by which He called Himself or He was called by His Messenger (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him).
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Sports Spectrum: Two Local Little Leaguers bound for Turner Field10:52 am | June 6, 2012
A pair of local Little League players will shuttle off to Atlanta on Friday in preparation for Saturday's hit, pitch and run competition sponsored by AquaFina and Major League Baseball.
Corey Russell and Karah Fields each won an opportunity to take part in Saturday's Southeast Regional after winning at the sectional level last week. Both it and the local competition were held at Jim Ensor Field.
Russell won the 11-12 year old baseball event, while Fields took the 7-8 year old division on the softball side.
The pair competed with players from all across the state while participating in the regional division. They each had to compile a score in the top three against several other regional winners to earn a right to take part in the events on Saturday morning at Turner Field.
Both of them were rewarded for their high marks.
Russell is the son of Keith and Emily Russell of Roan Mountain. Karah is the daughter of Dean and Melinda Fields of Roan Mountain. Both are students at Cloudland and future Highlanders.
Coaching Carousel
The coaching carousel continues throughout Northeast Tennessee after two icons have decided to hang it up.
Former Hampton High all conference player and Daniel Boone head coach Tim Campbell has called it quits after 23 seasons in the ranks.
Campbell, who also is the assistant principal, departs after compiling over 300 victories in his career. He took over has head coach in 1998 after serving as an assistant coach for the boys and girls.
In his first season he guided the Lady Trailblazers to the state tournament. He was named coach of the year four times and won four District championships. Campbell stated he wanted to devote more time to his assistant principal duties in addition to spending more time with his daughter and building on his relationship with God. He didn't rule out the possibility of returning to the hardwood in the future.
Boone will also be looking for a boy's assistant basketball coach.
Brandon Broyles was hired last Friday as the head boys basketball coach at North Greene replacing the legendary Ted Hensley. Hensley enjoyed several successful seasons at South Greene before spending the last four seasons on the Huskies bench.
Broyles was an assistant coach for seven seasons at Daniel Boone and also served as an assistant to Tony Wallingford at Milligan prior to that.
The new coach said he was excited about going to North Greene after watching Josh Edens and Tim Lady rebuild the football and baseball programs back into contenders. It might be a wait and see thing on the basketball side.
Cloudland, Hampton and Unaka return almost everyone from last season. University High must replace Milligan signee John Crowe, but figures to be always competitive.
In order to reach the mountaintop one must get out of the Watauga Valley.
Only time will tell for Broyles and his Huskies.
Lady Highlanders to get new diamond
The Lady Highlanders have likely played its last softball game at the old Cloudland Elementary School before next season.
Plans are underway to fix up the local park that already exits on 19-E just before you turn off onto Highway 143 toward Roan Mountain State Park according to head coach Kenneth Chambers.
The move would provide them plenty of parking plus the field is already equipped with a concession stand and bathrooms.
It's a move that the players and parents will embrace because the current softball field also serves as a practice facility for the football field.
Chambers hopes that everything will be ready in time for spring practice which will take place in March. Parents and volunteers are the ones providing most of the manpower.
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With a stay at Roomba Inn & Suites at Old Town, you'll be centrally located in Kissimmee, walking distance from Old Town and close to Arabian Nights Dinner Show.
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The hotel offers a restaurant and a coffee shop/café. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the hotel's bars, which include a poolside bar and a bar/lounge. An Internet point is located on site and high-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. For a surcharge, a roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request) is offered to guests. This Kissimmee hotel also offers an outdoor pool, tour/ticket assistance, and a picnic area. Wedding services and currency exchange can be provided. Onsite self parking and valet parking are complimentary.
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Dec 19, 2009
COP15: A deficit of ambition
Nnimmo Bassey, Chair of Friends of the Earth International sums up the last two weeks of climate talks in Copenhagen from the backroom deals to rise of the Climate Justice movement.
Early on in the second week of COP15, the cordoned path created for long lines of NGOs seeking entry into the Bella Centre was a crowded mass of people. The cold was setting in, but the people pressed in.
The story was different for the last two days of the COP. The path was desolate and taken over by a carpet of snow. Observers had been barred from entering the venue and the few with possibilities of entry had to contend with long waits as security officials thumbed through sheets with names of those cleared to enter.
Within the conference venue the most democratic space appears to be the entrance hall where the registration of delegates was carried out. The pull here is the large UNFCCC logo on the wall where virtually every delegate sought to be photographed as a memento to a conference of lost opportunities.
Inside the chambers, more went on behind closed doors than in plenary. The Danish president of the COP spent more time denouncing leaked or rumoured secret texts rather than spending precious time negotiating. Blocks and hurdles were erected in the path of negotiators to ensure that real progress was not made.
The UNFCCC erected banners inviting people to raise their voices for climate change. Out on the streets the Danish police fought to ensure that the voices of dissent were silenced.
Thousands demand Climate Justice
If any good news emerged from the climate conference, it must be that the climate justice movement is rising up. On December 12, 2009 over 100,000 citizens of the world braved the cold and marched more than six kilometres through the streets of Copenhagen to show their disgust with politicians and leaders who consistently refuse to act but keep talking about climate change.
Would emissions be cut? Would these be done at source or would it be through acts carried out elsewhere rather than at home? Who would pay for the mitigation measures needed to be effected in poor developing nations? The impacted nations have said that levels of funding needed to tackle these impacts have been put at about US$400 billion per year. With brave generosity, rich nations offer to place $30 billion for the period 2010 to 2020. And then ramped up to US$100 billion by 2020.
President Lula of Brazil, while speaking at the plenary on the closing date, wondered if the negotiators would have to wait for angels to put intelligence in their brains before they could come to a good deal. His statement suggested that there was a case of lack of intelligence. Was it really a lack of intelligence or an unwillingness to toe the paths of true ambition?
take it or leave it
When President Obama took the stage, he asserted that climate change poses an unacceptable risk to our planet. The world should act boldly in the face of the threat. He said he came to act and not to talk. So what was the act.
Obama stated that the USA would change the way they create and use energy as a necessary block in their national security. In addition they would work to ensure reduction of dependence on foreign oil. At the end of the day, all that President Obama said amounted to declaration of US interests that the world had to accept or leave. It brought nothing new to the table.
Even the funds promised for mitigation in poorer nations was made with a snigger that no one expecting aid should escape the demand for responsibility.
Talking about responsibility, who is responsible for the climate impacts in these poor countries? The pledge of President Lula to meet Brazilian challenges with own funds and the promise to assist poor countries in their efforts to take mitigation measures shone in the dark hallways of the Copenhagen talks.
With several versions of the Copenhagen Accord, coined perhaps from a phrase in President Obama's speech, one leaves the conference wondering where all the hype about working for an ambitious deal went. If there was a deficit of anything at this conference it was that of ambition.
A disaster for the world's poor
I left the Bella Conference at 1:45 AM to meet the warm chants of climate justice activists protesting in the cold, beneath the Metro tracks, denouncing the lack of seriousness in the climate negotiations. The protesters could have been snugly asleep in their beds, but these were mostly young people whose future was being jeopardised for the political expediency of a few and for the comfort and profiteering of carbon speculators.
As we said in our final statement at the talks, the so-called accord was a disaster to poor nations. A two degrees Celsius temperature rise means sure disaster and death to millions in vulnerable countries.
As I crushed the snow beneath my feet, each step raised a question: for how long will leaders be disconnected from the voices of the people? But I took great comfort from the strength of Friends of the Earth International activists who demonstrated to the world that the time for the growth of the climate justice movement has indeed come.
Congratulations, friends. Have a great holiday season and an action-filled 2010.
Dec 16, 2009
Friends of the Earth suspended from UN climate talks
Friends of the Earth today were refused entry to the UN climate conference in Copenhagen despite having the relevant accreditation.
Nnimmo Bassey the Friends of the Earth International Chair said:
"Our organizations represent millions of people around the world and provide a critical voice promoting climate justice inside the UN. On the inside and the outside, all the rules have gone out the window - organizations such as Friends of the Earth that support peaceful action are being barred while developing countries concerns are being trampled in the plenary."
This is a shocking turn in events and we are working on our response now to the UNFCCC.
We will keep you updated.
To learn more about today's dramatic events inside and outside of the conference centre please visit the Friends of the Earth US blog.
Dec 14, 2009
Food system change, not climate change
Hundreds of activists in Copenhagen took to the streets on Tuesday for the 'food system change, not climate change' march. The aim was to highlight the fact that large scale industrial agriculture aggravates climate change rather than solving the climate problem.
Dec 13, 2009
Flooding the streets of Copenhagen for climate justice
Yesterday more than five thousand people from all over the world took to the cold streets of Copenhagen to demand climate justice and an end to offsetting emissions.
The flood began outside the Klimaforum - the civil society event on climate change - with speeches from Nnimmo Bassey, the Friends of the Earth International Chair, Henry Saragih, General Coordinator of La Via Campesina and Amparo Miciano, from the World March for Women.
Nnimmo rallied the crowd with a stirring call to action. He demanded climate justice and called for end to false climate change solutions such as offsetting.
"To those who want to pollute at home and plant a tree in Africa, we say no," he shouted.
Around 5000 people, dressed in blue ponchos and carrying 'demand climate justice' flags, came to the march from every corner of Europe and beyond.
Reinford Mwangonde from Friends of the Earth Malawi said why it was so important for him to be there:
"In Malawi we now have flooding, desperate droughts and very short rains. This doesn't give farmers enough time to grow anything. Animals are also suffering because there is not enough green land. It's a daily struggle for Malawian farmers."
"Africa is at the front line of climate change and that is why I am in Copenhagen, to demand climate justice now!" he concluded.
After the speeches came the arrival of the carbon traders; sinister men and women in suits shouting:
"Come offset your carbon emissions. We're selling dirty air and buying clean air"
As the carbon traders left the stage they were pursued by the crowd, who 'flooded' the streets, chanting "No offsetting. Climate justice now!"
The Flood also carried messages from directly affected by climate change who couldn't make it to Copenhagen. These messages formed part of the 'climate capsule' that is currently on display in the Klimaforum.
The Flood ended in front of the Danish Parliament with the creation of a massive human banner reading 'Offsetting is a false solution'.
The crowd then joined an estimated 100,000 demonstrators to march to the conference centre, where the official climate talks are taking place, with their messages of climate justice now!
It was a truly inspiring day where our demands were heard loud and clearly. Only next week will we know whether world leaders have listened.
Dec 11, 2009
Bringing messages to Copenhagen - by bike
Amid the chaos of the conference centre a press conference was held by Kim Nguyen who had cycled from Australia all the way to the climate conference collecting messages for delegates on the way.
Kim's journey began in East Timor where the people he met people had first hand experience of the devastating effects of climate change.
"For three years the seasonal rains never came and then one year they came all at once and were deluged. The few crops they have were destroyed" he said.
He met people in the Gobi desert who told him that every year the desert expands and more and more lakes and rivers dry up.
It was in the same desert that he saw a working example of renewable energy at a local level.
"All the tents they lived in had solar panels on the top."
Throughout his travels he collected messages for the world leaders at the climate summit in video, photo, illustrations and letters.
He is now trying to deliver those messages to the people in the COP15 summit who are deciding on their futures.
Dec 09, 2009
The Copenhagen launch of the 40% report
This morning Friends of the Earth International in partnership with the Stockholm Environment Institute held a press conference in the Bella Center to launch the 40% study which shows that 40% emissions cuts in Europe are achievable.
The study prepared by Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) in partnership with Friends of the Earth Europe proves for the first time the feasibility and affordability of achieving at least 40% emissions cuts in Europe by 2020 compared to 1990 levels, without offsetting.
Dr Charlie Heaps from the SEI set out the methodology used in the report and his graph clearly showed that the current targets being proposed by Europe "leave little room for non-Annex 1 countries to develop."
Sonja Meister from Friends of the Earth Europe set out the case for why Europe really has to push for 40% and laid out some of the benefits too:
"The EU should recognise the benefits of making such cuts. Investment in renewables and energy efficiency would create seven jobs per every one in fossil fuels. There are also many health benefits."
Interview with the Bolivian ambassador to the United Nations, Pablo Solon
The landslide victory of Evo Morales in the Bolivian elections, the official negotiations of the COP 15 to the UN Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen and the role of social movements here, were some of the issues mentioned by Bolivian ambassador to the UN, Pablo Solon, in an exclusive interview with Real World Radio.
Dec 08, 2009
COP 15 begins - part two
The ice is melting - literally. Sam Fleet began day one of the COP in the Bella Center where the official negotiations are taking place.
The day began at 06:30; a rushed breakfast followed by a crowded metro. We arrived at the Bella center to find Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND) had installed a melting ice sculpture of the Mermaid statue, calling for climate justice at the entrance.
The atmosphere inside the centre was intense, and one of excitement. It was a huge transformation from the empty atrium I had seen the night before, into something akin to a train station at rush hour. It was entirely possible to spend the day exhausting yourself running around like a headless chicken, rushing from one spot to the next, without achieving anything.
The communications and media teamed discussed their strategy, although judging from the huge number of journalists and camera crews marching around the centre, it seemed there would be no difficulty getting coverage; we just had to provide the spokespeople – something FoEI has no shortage of, representing 77 countries.
I left after lunch in order to head to the Klimaforum – the global civil society counterpart of the official UN conference in the Bella Centre – where the second half of the FoEI communications team were based.
After a brief unintended detour through the centre of Copenhagen, past the Hopenhagen concert arena – a huge corporate sponsored initiative – I arrived at the Klimaform just in time to help out and take pictures at the FoEI opening press conference, with our chair, Nnimmo Bassey.
Nnimmo was then rushed in front of Associated Press, and German, Danish and Swedish TV channels, before taking the stage at the opening event for the Klimaforum. I passed through, en-route to a coordination meeting to watch the Danish Chime Transform - Lisbeth Diers playing on instruments sculpted out of ice. An enchanting performance, compounded by the fact, that near the end of the show, whether by design, or accident, the instruments began to shatter in the musician's hands – melting under the hot stage lights.
A simple message: climate change waits for no-one. Act Now!
Action: Ban the backroom deals in copenhagen
Call the on the Danish government - the hosts of the summit - to broker a just and transparent climate agreement.
Desperate to get any kind of deal, the Danish Prime Minister has been leading meetings with rich country negotiators to agree the wording of agreements before proposals are even on the table.
We need to make it clear to the Danish government that this isn't acceptable. And as the hosts of the talks, their responsibility is to ensure a fair and transparent process , not to broker a deal at any cost to the millions of people in developing countries who will suffer most.
Email the President of the Conference of Parties now.
This action is hosted by Friends of the Earth England Wales and Northern Ireland.
Dec 07, 2009
The FoEI delgation meeting
On Sunday 7 December the Friends of the Earth International delegation to the climate negotiations met in person for the first time these two weeks to discuss our strategies and get to know each other.
Attended by campaigners, communicators, coordinators and Young Friends of the Earth Europe it was great to finally have everyone in the same place and put faces to names - over the last year we've had numerous phone conferences and exchanged hundreds of emails.
The day began with an introduction from Nnimmo Bassey the Chair of Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) giving one of his motivational speeches that never fails to inspire whilst at the same time putting a smile on every face.
Then it was the turn of some of FoEI's wisest climate minds to give their take on the critical negotiations ahead.
Meena Raman from Friends of the Earth Malaysia talked about the sky grab
that is taking place by developed countries and the Bolivia delegation's recent assertion that there is "little atmospheric space left for developing countries".
We heard about the European Union's position and the various negotiating groups that have formed around the world - the G77, Africa, ALBA, the Umbrella group and AOSIS to name a few.
We also heard about the tactics that some countries are using to divide unified groups by offering bi-lateral deals rather than dealing with a block as a whole.
One of these strong blocks is Africa who, last month in Barcelona, refused to continue formal discussions about offsetting and insisted that the talks focus on real carbon-reduction targets for rich countries.
Finally Kate Horner from Friends of the Earth United States assessed the US position. Asked whether the arrival of President Obama to the talks was a positive step, she expressed concern that in an effort to stay on the right side of the charismatic President some countries may make concessions that would not be in the interests of the kind of agreement developing countries need.
It was a lot to take on board but the overall message was simple, a just agreement will be difficult to secure but is not impossible.
young friends of the earth just keep on going
During lunch, Young Friends of the Earth Europe (YFoEE), never ones to put their feet up, carried out a teaser action in street calling on people to join the Flood for Climate Justice on Saturday 12 December.
In the afternoon we divided into smaller groups: communications,
actions and lobbying, and we discussed how we could best perform the tasks we had been assigned, which for me is communicating to You.
Just after 5pm we were done, a little tired, but raring to go for two weeks of long days and late nights certain in the knowledge that only a just agreement in Copenhagen will do.
England, Wales and Northern Ireland action
Take action with Friends of the Earth England Wales and Northern Ireland by calling on the UK climate secretary to sign up to the right agreement in Copenhagen.
Call on him to sign up to:
- Emissions cuts of at least 40% by 2020 on 1990 levels for all developed countries.
- A new financial mechanism to support developing countries in tackling climate change.
- Offsetting to be scrapped - including the the use of carbon trading in tackling deforestation. Offsetting is unjust and fundamentally flawed.
Take action now!
Dec 06, 2009
All aboard the Climate Express
Sam Fleet from Friends of the Earth Europe reports on an entertaining journey to the Danish capital all powered by renewable energy, champagne and jazz.
At 08:00 on Friday morning my colleague and I found ourselves in the waiting room for the Climate Express from Brussels to Copenhagen. We were to be 'eco-passengers' on the Train to Copenhagen, and would travel direct, powered from renewable sources, with a plethora of events to entertain us en-route, before arriving in Copenhagen 14 hours later.
After dodging the camera crews, we settled into our seats, and prepared flyers and posters for the Friends of the Earth International 'Flood for Climate Justice' to spread around the train. I joined the champagne breakfast, accompanied by jazz, in the dimly lit dining car, as the train sped past the still, grey, sleepy Belgian countryside. During the day, a range of talks and presentations across two carriages would cover a range of topics, from climate science to urban transportation, and would continue right up until arrival in Copenhagen at 23:00.
The Climate Express was not as fast as the name implied: train-spotters in Aachen took the opportunity to film the unique Climate Express as it stopped to give way to numerous freight trains.
I photographed Tom Picken, the international climate campaigner from Friends of the Earth England Wales and Northern Ireland, as he handed over our 40% study, showing that 40% emission cuts are possible in Europe, to the CEO of Eurostar, Richard Brown.
what are we doing in Copenhagen?
The majority of MEPs disembarked in Köln to return to Brussels, and were replaced by more passengers for the stretch to Copenhagen. The media moved from the front of the train to the rear to get a different perspective and the FoEE representatives found themselves in front of an Italian camera crew. The question being asked from the crew was simply, "What will you be doing in Copenhagen?"
Tom provided a sane and sober response – urgent and deep emission cuts for developed countries, without offsetting; money for developing countries to adapt to the effects of climate change; forests out of carbon markets; public money to fight climate change through the UNFCCC, not the World Bank.
When they unexpectedly turned the camera on me, they received a mumbled, embarrassed and red-faced "demand climate justice", which will no doubt be edited out. A good reason for all those in the FoEI delegation to familiarize themselves with the official FoEI messages and keep their cool in front of the cameras!
The Climate Express took on a very relaxed atmosphere towards the end of the journey, with the media circus calming down, and those remaining on the train until Copenhagen taking what would probably be the last chance for an evening nap. The same Italian TV crew from earlier debated whether the organic tagliatelle to be served for dinner would have been cooked since Köln, and therefore be well past its best – which was thankfully not the case.
My second embarrassing media interview commenced immediately after stepping out of the train into the Copenhagen drizzle, when a Japanese camera crew filmed me holding the 'seal the deal' bag that we had all been given on boarding. I tried to convince them that climate justice was more important than just any old deal, but it was lost on them.
For the rest of the COP I will try and stay behind the camera. Blogging is more my thing.
If you want to read our Copenhagen demands you can do so here.
Nov 09, 2009
Barcelona report card
Young Friends of the Earth Europe assesses the performance of leaders at the Barcelona climate talks in the form of a school report and highlights which countries need to pull their socks up.
Nov 03, 2009
Barcelona climate talks
African negotiators at the UN climate talks in Barcelona have refused to continue formal discussions about all other issues and are insisting instead that the talks focus on real carbon-reduction targets for rich countries.
Today in solidarity with Africa Friends of the Earth International held an action in support of African delegates' insistence that developed countries commit to new, strong binding targets. Delegates and observers were invited to join a human shield against the killing of Kyoto targets and instead urged to promote at least 40% emission reductions with no offsets by 2020.
Kamese Geoffrey of NAPE/ Friends of the Earth Uganda warned:
"Rich countries are attempting to dodge their legal and moral responsibilities to reduce emissions. Developing countries and communities have historically had practically no fault in the creation of climate change, yet they will be the first to face the devastating impacts of climate change."
Millions of people are already being affected by climate change impacts such as floods and droughts.
Line Kirk of Young Friends of the Earth said:
"The world needs those responsible for climate change legally bound to act. Rich industrialised (Annex I) countries are proposing the replacement of a legally binding instrument with a voluntary pledge system, which will almost certainly spell disaster for the planet and all people. We demand our future is secured through strong new targets for rich countries - without offsetting - under the Kyoto Protocol."
further reading
Young Friends of the Earth Europe are also in Barcelona. Read their blog here
Read Kate Horner's blog from Friends of the US
Oct 09, 2009
Bangkok climate talks: wrap up
Today is the last day of the Bangkok climate talks. However, in two weeks of negotiations there has been very little discussion on some of the key political issues that are necessary to ensure that we have a just climate change agreement in Copenhagen. Steph Long, one of FoEI's Climate Coordinators, explains.
It's been a fairly acrimonious two weeks with possibly the highest level of mistrust and tension between negotiating parties in recent years.
In the past two weeks there has been a notable display of innovation: though not at all of the kind of innovation we need, such as declarations to keep the oil in the soil, the coal in the hole and the tar sands in the land - but innovative redefinition of what it means to be historically responsible for climate change.
In attempts to get the US into the climate agreement, developed countries are proposing to junk the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol (the only international legally binding treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions) and arguing that this is the only way to get an effective action on climate change.
After South Africa proposed a means to limit the amount of offsetting that developed countries could use in meeting emissions reduction targets, the New Zealand government was quoted as saying "but if we put limits on offsetting, we would have to move our target to zero".
developed vs developing
A member of the Australian government delegation proposed that we "smooth over" the distinction between developed and developing countries.
After fielding critical questions about the USA government's refusal to enter into an agreement with stringent international compliance; one of their lead negotiators responded with "China has not agreed to any international compliance in last 20 years." [there is the minor level of compliance required in TRIPS and trade agreements for one....]
Developing countries have offered sharp retorts to developed country proposals which also deserve recognition:
In response to developed countries proposals to expand offset markets, the
government of Venezuela on behalf of several Latin American countries
responded "It is simply unfair, unreasonable and unhelpful to hide the conflicting economic interests of developed countries behind efforts to reenact olden days 'land- grabs' by modern days 'sky-grabs'."
In response to developed countries refusal to accept proposals that will required them to finance the mitigation, adaptation and technology transfer needs of developing countries, through new democratic financial institutions rather than the World Bank; the government of Philippines on behalf of the G77+China offered developing countries "Capacity building on how to fulfil Convention obligations."
So, one of the inspiration outcomes of the Bangkok climate talks is the force with which developing countries are refusing to accept the backtracking of developed countries to meet their legal and historical obligations.
Next stop Barcelona. Find out more.
Jun 30, 2009
Email your nearest Honduran embassy
Write to your nearest Honduran embassy and demand that the Honduran Armed Forces immediately re-instate the ousted President Zelaya and re-establish respect for all elected authorities.
Here is some text you can use or sample for your email or letter.
Subject: Reinstate President Manuel Zelaya.
Date: xxx
To: The Embassy of Honduras in xxx
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am writing to express my deep concern about the current situation in the republic of Honduras and my unreserved condemnation of the illegal detention and expulsion of the constitutional President of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya.
I join with the international community in demanding that the Honduran Armed Forces immediately re-instate Mr Zelaya and re-establish respect for all elected authorities. We condemn any persecution or repression of activists in grassroots movements and organizations by the sectors promoting the coup.
We insist that the Honduran Army respect the physical integrity of all Honduran social movements, organizations, the demonstrators who are defending the institutional order and we will be watchful for human rights abuses.
Since this illegal action this week, the news of Mr Zelaya's removal and details of the subsequent military actions have spread throughout the international community.
We want the Honduran Army to know that we are fully aware of the current stage of repression and have photographic evidence of what is happening in the streets of Honduras. The removal of President Zelaya was an illegal action and we are watching closely to ensure that social peace is restored in Honduras. We demand that the democratic process, and the will of the Honduras people, be respected.
In solidarity with the Honduran people,
Your Name Here
Jun 29, 2009
29 June 2009, FoEI Statement on Honduras
Friends of the Earth International condemns the illegal expulsion of the Honduran President and expresses its solidarity with Friends of the Earth Honduras and all the forces struggling for democracy in the country.
Friends of the Earth International is deeply worried about the current situation in the republic of Honduras and expresses its unreserved condemnation for the illegal detention and expulsion of the constitutional president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya by the armed forces.
Friends of the Earth International demands the restoration of the Honduran president and the unconditional respect for democracy.
Friends of the Earth International expresses its solidarity with Friends of the Earth Honduras / Movimiento Madre Tierra and all the forces struggling for democracy in Honduras.
The entire international community must demand the return of the democratically elected president.
Friends of the Earth International invites citizens worldwide to protest and send letters to the embassies of Honduras worldwide, demanding the restoration of the elected Honduran president and the unconditional respect for democracy. The will of the Honduran people must be respected at all times.
More information
- Watch an interview with Dr Juan Almendares, Director of Friends of the Earth Honduras.
- Read the statement from Friends of the Earth Latin America and Caribbean
- Read the statement from Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific
take action
Please write to your nearest Honduran embassy and demand the restoration of the elected President and the unconditional respect for democracy.
Jun 15, 2009
Japan's Friend of the Fossils
Friends of the Earth Japan have dubbed their Prime Minister 'Friend of the Fossils' for his woefully low targets for cuts in carbon emissions.
At the Bonn climate talks Japan announced their incredibly low target of a 15% reduction in carbon emission from 2005 levels, equivalent to 8% reductions from 1990 levels.
Reacting to the targets, Yvo de Boer - Executive Secretary of the climate talks - comment that "for the first time in two and a half years in this job I just don't know what to say."
Left: Prime Minister Taro Aso stands aside models of large carbon emitters such as air travel and heavy industry.
Below: Shirobe the polar bear lets the Prime Minister know, in no uncertain terms, he's not a happy bear.
Feb 09, 2009
fourth annual photo competition
Friends of the Earth International is excited to announce our fourth annual photo competition.
This year's photo competition will gather photos from around the world on the theme of "Biodiversity Lost, Biodiversity Preserved". The best shots will be featured in a series of materials we will launch in conjunction with the 2010 UN International Year of Biodiversity, including a calendar and an international photo exhibition.
Find out how you can take part in the competition and view last year's winners
Jan 16, 2009
Where is the humanity of the United Nations?
A poem by Juan Almendares chairperson of Friends of the Earth Honduras.
To the poet of the olives
Mahmoud Darwish (1942 -2008)
and for the children of Palestine.
Killing or war!
said the wise owl,
while waking up from its millenary dreams.
Killing!! Said the hawk,
while showing its sinister claws ...
Killing is the slogan!
Cried the Coryphaeus of death.
While the owl,
settled on my eyes,
I could not open
my tightly closed eyelids
due to the gruesome scene
of the Palestine massacre.
Who can sleep
and keep silence,
if this unpunished killing
hurts the heart
of humanity?
In the labyrinth of infamy,
missiles and bombs
killing the children,
torture the life of dreams
and strangle the heart of the mothers
Such land in Gaza
my throat is tightened,
pain tores
my silence.
I shouted and shouted with solidarity courage:
Where is the humanity of the
United Nations?
Brother, sister!:
The children,
the olive trees and the winds of the desert have died!
I heard the voice of the poet of the olives:
The "Birds are dying in Galilee"
And the joy is "withered in the borders."
I am skin and heart of all colors.
My soul embraces the planet
with the song of the lark
and the subtle flight of the hummingbird.
I love humanity,
without holocausts:
Africa, Asia, Australia, Latin America,
Without the Nazi genocide against Jews and Gypsies,
without martyrdom in Palestine.
I love freedom:
freedom of the olives,
freedom without walls
freedom of the water.
Freedom of the stories
in "a thousand and one nights."
I Dream of the poet of the olive trees:
with no occupied territories,
without financial crisis and hunger
due to the business of weapons, or
oil wars;
due to gold and emeralds.
My dreams want to shake
the conscience of the people
and overcome with love and rebellion
the hunter of the planet.
I dream of the freedom of Palestine, and
Honduras, my occupied homeland.
A free Homeland!
Homeland for all mankind!


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AçıklamaThe goal - survive as long as possible, until the board is filled. Arrange 5 balls of one color in any direction to collapse them. Looking to leaders, this game would be infinite, but not for everyone!
Game is a clone of Lines'98
- Nice graphics & sounds
- Unlimited undo of moves
- Scoreloop integration


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Jiang Mianheng gave the lead-off presentation at the International Thorium Energy Organization 2012 meeting in Shanghai, sponsored by the Shanghai Institute of Nuclear and Applied Physics and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Jiang Mianheng is the son of former president Jiang Zemin and a leader of CAS. After publication of Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors in the July/August 2010 American Scientist he led a delegation to Oak Ridge National Laboratory to learn more about the ORNL molten salt reactors experience. In January 2011 the CAS announced a $350 million 5 year thorium MSR project engaging 400 people.
Videographer Gordon McDowell provided this initial draft of Jiang's presentation. Jiang explains China's GDP growth, urbanization, and increasing energy demand and concern about environmental impacts of burning fossil fuels. He presents the potential for using LFTR to solve these problems. You might spot some graphics from the American Scientist article and the Aim High presentation.
After his presentation I presented him a copy of THORIUM: energy cheaper than coal, which he insisted that I autograph.


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England's centre back problem
It seemed inevitable that when Roy Hodgson had to choose between John Terry and Rio Ferdinand last year, the manager would eventually end up with neither.
Whatever your views of Terry's international retirement, or Ferdinand's decision to turn down his call-up this week, citing an "intricate pre-planned programme," this is typical England. When forced to choose between two options, England always gets the worst of both worlds.
When Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard were battling for the primary midfield role, England got the best from neither. When it was clear England should either build a 4-3-3 around those two, or select a 4-4-2 to take advantage of Michael Owen and David Beckham's talents, a fruitless compromise was the solution. Terry and Ferdinand is yet another issue with a similar nonresolution.
- Video: Rio Ferdinand withdraws
- Michael Owen to retire
This has become such an enormous story because of the status of the duo and the reason for their falling out, but also because Hodgson's centre back options are extremely unimpressive. Steven Taylor was drafted into the squad to replace the injured Gary Cahill, but Hodgson will surely select two from Joleon Lescott, Chris Smalling and Steven Caulker, despite none being automatic first choices at their respective clubs. From 30 league games, Lescott has started 11, Caulker 15 and Smalling 14.
More troubling is the lack of genuine quality -- none of these are anything close to world-class players. Taylor and Lescott are near their peak but somewhat underwhelming, Smalling and Caulker are more talented but lack experience. The likes of Michael Dawson, Gary Cahill and Phil Jagielka, all injured, fall into the first category, Phil Jones the latter. Hodgson doesn't have a single outstanding centre back.
Worryingly, this was previously England's great area of strength. Ferdinand developed a fantastic relationship with Sol Campbell a decade ago, before John Terry provided competition. At roughly the same time, Jamie Carragher -- a regular for a European Cup-winning side -- barely got a look-in, while Ledley King and Jonathan Woodgate, when fit, were also commanding centre backs. The quartet selected for World Cup 2006 -- Ferdinand, Terry, Campbell and Carragher -- was arguably the strongest in the competition.
However, the decline in quality of defenders is not a pattern restricted to England. How many centre backs across Europe have played top-class football consistently over the past three seasons? Thiago Silva, Mats Hummels, Gerard Pique, Giorgio Chiellini and Vincent Kompany would probably be the five outstanding candidates, one from each major league, but even they have their limitations. Silva has been injury-prone, Hummels lacks a bit of pace, Pique's form wobbled during Pep Guardiola's final season, Chiellini has often been a left back rather than a centre back, and Kompany's form has dipped since last season (and he can struggle when defending high up the pitch).
Compared to a decade ago, it's a weak field. Then, the likes of Fabio Cannavaro, Paolo Maldini, Jaap Stam, Alessandro Nesta, Lucio, Lilian Thuram, Roberto Ayala and Walter Samuel -- in addition to the English brigade -- were genuinely top-class. Let's not view this with rose-tinted specs. These players weren't perfect: Maldini had a poor 2002 World Cup, Nesta was prone to the odd shocker, Ayala lacked pace. But the truth is that, for a variety of reasons, playing centre back has become more difficult.
First, increasingly strict rules governing tackling have had a significant impact. The tackle from behind and the two-footed challenge have long since been outlawed, but there has also been a slow, subtle shift in the level of physicality permitted. Increasingly, attackers are looking for contact, and there seems to be a prevailing mood that in some situations, players have "a right go to ground." Centre backs have to be increasingly careful and patient when challenging for the ball.
Second, the pace of the game has increased significantly. Even matches from a decade ago were noticeably slower -- the tempo of the game, the pace of individuals, the speed of the passing. Mistimed tackles have become much more common.
Third, strikers have become cleverer. The best forwards no longer place themselves up against opposition centre backs, waiting for long balls and crosses. Instead, they focus more on movement, link-up play and timing of runs. The "false nine" concept has become mainstream, and although it has influenced rather than revolutionised centre-back play, the change in emphasis shouldn't be underestimated. Luis Suarez, Robin van Persie and Michu, the three top-scoring centre forwards in the Premier League, all started in much deeper positions and retain their positional unpredictability.
Fourth -- and a related concept -- there is more mobility, energy and goal-scoring threat from attacking midfielders. The increased popularity of the 4-2-3-1 system (and to a certain extent, the 4-3-3) creates more fluid systems capable of interchanging attackers -- there are more options, more for defenders to think about. When playing against Chelsea 10 years ago, centre backs would be concerned almost solely about Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and Eidur Gudjohnsen. The likes of Jesper Gronkjar, Mario Stanic, Qique De Lucas and Bolo Zenden weren't going to provide a goal threat (because of their role in the side as well as their lack of raw ability) nor was Lampard in a flat midfield four. Now, as well as a primary striker, defenders have to watch Eden Hazard, Oscar and Juan Mata – plus Ramires and Lampard bursting forward from. Strikers contribute a lesser percentage of goals, which has made defending more complex.
Fifth, the increased popularity of squad rotation hasn't helped cohesion. Traditionally, centre back is where you want consistency, but the likes of Sir Alex Ferguson, Rafael Benitez, Andre Villas-Boas and Arsene Wenger have frequently swapped their defenders this season. Do we know any of these managers' first-choice centre-back duo for certain? With less familiarity, reliable relationships are more difficult to build – and good centre-back play is all about partnerships.
Sixth, centre backs are expected to do more. Ten years ago, it was an extravagant bonus to possess a centre back who was comfortable in possession. Now it's vital. The most extreme passing sides have started naming midfielders as centre backs – Barcelona have played Yaya Toure, Sergio Busquets, Javier Mascherano and Alex Song there, refusing to buy a traditional backup centre back. The more the focus on technicality, the less pure defensive ability will shine through.
The flip side? Teams defend better as a unit. Whether through heavy pressing or staying deep and protecting the back four, the demands upon midfielders and forwards when the opposition have possession have increased significantly. Getting the entire starting XI into a reliable, discipline defensive shape is supposedly Roy Hodgson's main strength – he can't use a lack of top-class centre backs as an excuse.


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Commander in Chief of the Defence Forces congratulates Maj Gen Joff Otieno for his new appointment as the Kenya Air Force Commander on on 15 th July 2011 at State House Nairobi.
Maj Gen Joff Otieno has been appointed the new Kenya Air Force on 13 th July 2011 by the Commander in Chief of the Defence Forces His Excellency President Mwai Kibaki.
In a hand over ceremony that was held at Moi Air Base, the new Air Force Commander pledged to do his best in adhering to good leadership while in the office in order to change the face of the Kenya Air Force.
Maj Gen Otieno who joined the Defence Forces in 1981 has undertaken numerous management and leadership courses within the Defence Forces and civilian institutions both locally and abroad. Before his current appointment he was the Commandant of Defence Staff College.


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Atlanta >Restaurants > Fox Bros. Bar-B-Q
1238 Dekalb Ave, Atlanta, GA | Directions 3030733.760979 -84.347370
Sun - Thu: 11:00am - 10:00pm
Fri - Sat: 11:00am - 11:00pm
Neighborhoods: Eastside, Eastside, Candler Park
I went for the fried pickles and ended up finding the best BBQ in Atlanta. I love their beef brisket (the pickles were good too).
Love , love , love the lopez and the ribs; cool little joint in Inman park. Great for groups and kids; order a few dishes and share them family style
My favorite barbecue spot in the city, hands down. My favorite items here are their beef brisket and smoked wings
This place is known for it's delicious heart attack on a plate BBQ and sides, but my favorite is the banana pudding for dessert!
While the Beef Ribs are exceptional and the best in town, don't forget to get the amazing apps. The Lopez: tater tots smothered in brisket chili and gooey cheese.
Overrated. I was disappointed. Service was good, portions were good but my meats were dry and overcooked. I had the wings, brisket and ribs. While the flavor was good, the meat was dry. It tasted as if it had been reheated. My green beans were a little bland as well. I was expecting more kick. I won't be driving from West Cobb to Fox Bros anytime soon. I'll stick to Jim and Nicks, a chain.
Great Bar-B-Q - Try the Innovative & Yummy 'Burger'! – Look to Fox Bros. for great barbecue as well as innovative and creative ideas that are delish! Try their "Burger" - proof positive that there can never be too much of a good thing. Heaven on a bun! Ribs are great. Brisket is divine - Texas approved. Lots of tasty sides, all with that Fox Bros. touch. Desserts are homemade and luscious!
not real bbq – taste like the boil, not smoke their bbq, go to daddy d'z or fatt matt's if you want good bbq in atl
Take Me to Memphis – I read a lot about the place and took a road trip hoping for something good but soon realized why Atlanta is not known for its BBQ. I like me meat pink but not my pig. The only place I have ever been to that messed up Mac and Cheese, cold slaw and sweet tea. My wife thought there was no way to mess up banana pudding but they found a way. I bet the booze is ok but other than that I would suggest going somewhere else. If its the best in the area I would hate to see their worst place.
Awful Catering Service! – I used Fox Bros to cater my rehearsal dinner because we love their food and wanted to do something casual. Our delivery time was set for 6:45, at 7:15 we called and were told the van was 10 mins away. At 7:40 we called again and learned that they LIED to us earlier and had in fact LOST our order!!! Finally our food arrived after almost 2 hours of 50 hungry people standing around waiting, and we didn't even get some of the sides we ordered because they didn't have them available. I would never suggest using this company for any food you are depending on for a party of any kind.
Awesome BBQ in a town badly needing it – Chopped brisket fully integrated with bits of flavor-bomb fat, gut-brick chili-cheese tots, hulking bricks of butter-slathered jalepeno cornbread and spicy collards are on many southerners ideal menu. Fortunately for Atlantans, Fox Bros does each of these very well, along with the rest of the Texas-influenced offerings of smoked-out cue. Melt-in-your-mouth could work as an adjective for 90 percent of the menu you wash down with a Lone Star or Sweetwater 420. Inside you'll find typical accoutrement generally uniform of a southern-shack-style meat joint. Old pictures, awards, beer signs etc. adorn the walls though the outdoor patio offers the welcome scent from the meat smoker posted up just feet away. The parking lot can fill up so park along the neighborhood side street if you need a place to park your pickup.
A safe haven for BBQ addicts – Fox Bros BBQ quickly became an ATL staple. How could it not be, a creative yet "meat & potatoes" menu, quick service and a family owned vibe has made this BBQ joint one of the best places to chow down in the city!
The spicy BBQ wings are meaty, juicy and with just the right kick that guarantees drive any wing-nut insane. the ribs will satisfy the Fred Flintstone in you - and the oh-so-creamy mac & cheese will make you wonder why you never had it so good growing up.
In town barbecue at it's best. – In Short
Atlanta has a true lack of barbecue identity. Bordered by areas with rich tradition (North Carolina, Alabama, Memphis), and with a transplant-heavy population, we have few places to turn for truly good 'cue. Enter: Fox Bros. What started as a few nights a week at Smith's Olde Bar has turned into their own location that feels like it's been there forever. While they openly wear their Texas influence (beef spare rib, Texas fries, brisket) they don't forget where they're located. A rib sandwich on white bread is a nod to Dreamland while their grilled cheese is of the pimento variety. Smoked wings are smoky and spicy at the same time while tater tots (covered with the likes of Brunswick stew, barbecue and cheese) are on a completely new level. Fox Bros borrows a little from here and there, but it's something that Atlantans can truly call their own.
Disappointed - Over Rated – Probably won't go back. Brought visitors from Illinois and was disappointed. Fried mac was bland ---- well, about everything on the sides was bland. Cold slaw and Pickles were good but who can mess-up a pickle? Ribs were way too charred (smoked) and had alot of fat. Okra was dry. Bloody Mary was too hot. Brisket was okay. Beer was cold. Sorry guys. Maybe this is just Texas style and I'm not used to it.......
Good Intown BBQ – This is one of the better bbq joints in town if you like texas style BBQ. I haven't had a bad meal yet. Good ribs, sandwiches, chicken, stew. etc. Try the Beef short ribs that they have on Thursdays. They gave me so much i literally ate them for 3 days. Good sides include collards, mac n cheeze and hey, they have tots. Can't go wrong there. My only complaint is that they can be a little heavy handed with the rub.
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October 1, 2009 — Last weekend, the Great War Aeroplanes Association, in partnership with the National Museum of the United States Air Force, held their biennial Dawn Patrol Rendezvous on the museum's grounds at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.
Despite questionable weather, this year's Rendezvous drew hundreds of spectators, and, thanks to special arrangements with WPAFB, featured flying displays by several replicas and recreations of WWI-era aircraft. A number of the visiting aircraft were trucked in and assembled on-site, offering onlookers a great opportunity to see firsthand what goes in to building, say, a 7/8ths scale Nieuport 11 or S.E.5a.
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Our Apparent Anthropocentric Universe
The Copernican Revolution dethroned man and our planet from being in the center of creation. The Earth became just another planet orbiting the Sun, and the Sun became just another star adrift in a sea of stars in the cosmos. Interestingly enough Kepler's law of equal areas in equal time explanation saved the appearances of perfection of circular orbits that Copernicus was still in the thrall of. It took Newton to outline the mathematical laws that explained orbital geometry.
Even this revolution in humanities view of itself being pushed off to the margins astronomically speaking did little to impact religion, faith, or the human conceit that our favored race was at the center of creation in a biological sense. It took Darwin's Theory of Evolution to really dethrone man, and move man from the center of creation, to just being another animal evolving or going extinct as many other plants and animals in the long history of the Earth have.
Immanuel Kant in the" Critique of Pure Reason" postulated that what man knows is a world permeated with his knowledge, and that the laws of science are built into a framework of his cognition. In other words the mind does not conform to things; rather, things conform to the mind. By this rationality we mean there are no facts, just interpretations.
Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper pretty much brought the same identification of the limits to knowledge to science that Kant injected into philosophy. Science typically proceeds by seeking confirmation of existing paradigms and to gather facts in the light of prevailing theory. I am old enough to remember when Black Holes were just a mathematical construct and astronomers doubted such a thing really existed. Now we know Black Holes are common place objects located in the center of most galaxies and distributed around the galaxy.
Religion has been in a long retreat since the Copernican Revolution. One of religion's major premises, the miracle, has been found seriously wanting in the light of scientific explanations for most phenomena. If you ask people they will tell you they think religion is a good idea. I take this to mean that they don't really believe, but that they think religion will provide a good moral climate for their children. I would characterize religious sentiment such as this, as being a mile wide but only an inch deep.
Finally there is language itself. The basic modern perspective is that all human thought is generated and bound by idiosyncratic cultural-linguistic forms. The various structures of language demonstrate no connection with an independent reality. Language is a "cage" (Wittgenstein). Moreover meaning itself can be shown to be unstable, because the context that determines meaning can never be fixed. Text refer only to other text in an infinite regress. Nothing certain can be said about the nature of truth, except that it is, as Richard Rorty put it, "it is what our peers will let us get away with saying.
So where does that leave us. We appear to live in a Universe of at least a few hundred billion galaxies, with each galaxy populated by at least a few hundred billion stars on average. We live on one small planet orbiting an average sized star in one of these galaxies. The Universe is at least 13.7 billion years old according to the latest studies made using the Hubble Space Telescope to do standard candle analysis of supernova in distant galaxies. Where a personal God is embedded in all this is hard to say? The idea that the one God who presides over all this creation really came to Earth two thousand years ago in the form of his son to sacrifice himself to save our souls in a backwater location like Palestine seems immensely implausible to say the least.
And yet we find modern humans inhabiting this planet in this technological day and age who somehow still feel (think is too strong a word) that we are the center of it all. It is alright for humans to take over the planet completely and exploit every ecological niche. The oceans, well we can just strip mine them of all the large fish we can catch until the fisheries of the entire world's seven oceans collapse. That there is no need to control our numbers and that somehow magically no matter how many of us there are science and technology will provide.
To turn a profit a very small percentage of humanity need (no, have a divine right) to be fabulously wealthy beyond the dreams of any historical king or potentate even if it undermines the stability of the Earth's climate, or the habitability of the planet. No matter if the ocean levels raise sixty or even two hundred feet, they won't be around when it happens, and it is their children's, children's problems, not theirs. Burning the 570 Giga Tons of carbon left in the remaining extractable fossil fuels will do all that, and more devastating billions of people, but that is the current standard business model.
Somehow, some way the human mind and ego has to turn a cognitive corner, have a life altering epiphany so to speak. We know intellectually that we are not the center of creation either astronomically or biologically speaking. When is the human race going to reach mature adulthood and stop being the center of creation egocentrically speaking?
This question of retaining infantile characteristics into adulthood is what is going to decide if we are a failed species from an evolutionary standpoint, that is, if we go extinct. It may well be that the development of a human cognitive intellect was a mistake; a mistake evolution is ultimately going to undo. It will be our choice really, grow up as a species, or pass life's baton on to another species whom we know not yet.
Addendum: Many of my quotes here on Kant, Kuhn, and Popper are taken from a really good book I highly recommend to my readers titled "The Passion of the Western Mind" by Richard Tarnas published in 1991 by Ballantine Books.
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